How Firstborn became an agency without losing its soul
When I stepped off the elevators and into Firstborn’s headquarters, I thought maybe I’d made a mistake. I’ve been to quite a few agencies. No…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
No Clear Path to Profit for Online Video, Say Executives
[…] create spikes of interest, but advertisers can’t bank on spikes. They need mountains. They need huge, consistent numbers across several seasons. YouTube is a…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Reliving The Past Motion Awards Winners! | Dreams of Dalí / Goodby Silverstein & Partners
The Dalí Museum in Florida sought to attract a wider audience to its exhibition, Disney and Dalí: Architects of the Imagination. To achieve this, they…
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Staff • 1 month ago
GoldRunner, Vivian Rosenthal and Augmented Reality
[…] the fringes but ARGs are beginning to enter into the popular landscape. One thing that was quite a surprise to our team was the…
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Justin Cone • 12 years ago
Ouroboros: AE Preset
[…] please help support a talented individual to continue to make not only great work but also create great tools for the community. Make sure…
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Joe Donaldson • 10 years ago
6 motion design industry predictions for 2015
[…] animation and compositing tools created a similar pattern.) 3. Magic Leap and Oculus Rift will clash, creating a flood of design and production work Facebook-backed Oculus Rift…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
User interface design: Why motion matters
[…] elements that attempt to create the illusion of analogue materials within a digital context. In recent years, designers have rejected skeuomorphism and moved onto “flatter”…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Magic Leap… no, for real this time
[…] the environment, build an accurate 3D model of it and then perform real-time 3D tracking and compositing. This is similar to some of the tech built…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Atelier Transfert: Watch and Learn
[…] technique that’s harder to master than it sounds, so I thought I’d ask them a few questions about their process. Atelier Transfert’s Christian Martel…
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Justin Cone • 16 years ago
Chicken or Egg?
[…] vs. Sour Pepsi One People by TBWA / Chiat Day 2010 Sour by Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
Johnny Kelly’s Play for YouTube
[…] if they’re already onto Johnny Kelly, I think it’ll be well worth checking out. Here’s an interesting making-of video if you want to see…
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Bran Dougherty-Johnson • 14 years ago
Artist Profile: Joshua Harvey
[…] applied to Art Center, but New York won me over. I moved there having never visited, which was a pretty insane thing to do.…
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Justin Cone • 10 years ago
How a husband and wife team took a startup from brand to product launch
[…] the course of a 3-week post-doc master class (through voice and video calls), that expanded the script from a dense 1-pager into 23 insanely…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
Watching Glean Keane draw in virtual reality is amazing
[…] life-sized versions of Ariel and Beast in the short with an HTC Vive headset and the 3D painting app called Tilt Brush, (which is…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago
From our experience, we suggest interfacing with Gunner! Motion Award recipient.
Google Home App / Gunner WINNER / INTERACTIVE > UX / UI CATEGORY DESCRIPTION Motion design in the context of a user interface for a game,…
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Millie Verastegui • 4 years ago
Mailchimp
Joe Donaldson • 7 years ago
Make good things together
Joe Donaldson • 6 years ago
Circular Economy 2030
Joe Donaldson • 6 years ago
Joseph Kosinski: Gears of War
The new Gears of War trailer is noteworthy for several reasons. One, it’s directed by one of my favorite CG-centric filmmakers, Joseph Kosinski, formerly of…
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Justin Cone • 18 years ago
Board Summit: Day 2 Round-Up
As we all recover from the Boards Summit, here’s a recap of some notable items from Day 2. The morning session, Business as Unusual, was…
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Matt Lambert • 15 years ago
Elastic: MTV Video Music Awards 2014 (case study + interview)
Brandon Lori dives deep into the elegant package for MTV's signature event.
Brandon Lori • 10 years ago
Game of Thrones: Sword Experience
The wizards at Red Paper Heart just returned from San Diego Comic-Con, arguably the largest orgy of geek culture in the world, where eager fans…
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Justin Cone • 9 years ago